Sustainability in Marine Organisms: Learning from the Evolutionary Survivors

While climate change has impacted life at land and sea, it's impossible to know exactly how fast species will adapt to warmer and more acidic sea water, and which species will survive into the future. In this course we will explore ancient marine organisms that have adapted and survived to diverse environmental changes across millions years of evolution, in order to better understand the molecular cellular and communal elements that allowed for their success. The course will include observation and experimentation with diverse marine organisms, lectures, readings, writings, and discussions.